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Pink Floyd

Disciplines:
rock music
rock music/progressive rock

Summary

Pink Floyd are a British rock band known for 'The Dark Side of the Moon', 'Wish You Were Here', and 'The Wall'.

Core Contribution

'The Wall' provided Nolan with a template for the subjective-reality film; their use of Shepard tones demonstrates the device's power to create unresolved perpetual longing.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • Sonic architecture over melody (Pink Floyd built albums as environments to inhabit rather than collections of songs)
  • Alienation as rock subject (The Wall treats rock stardom itself as a psychological pathology)

Historical Influences

Syd Barrett Stockhausen

Intellectual Lineage

British psychedelic rockArt rock Progressive rock

Allied Works

The WallPink Floyd: The Wall

Contemporaries & Peers

King CrimsonYesGenesis

Minds Influenced

Radiohead Christopher Nolan

Intellectual Posterity

Dark Side of the Moon as landmark of rock production

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